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Associate Lecturer at Goldsmiths. Historian of British, US and global politics and culture. Writing a book on UK progressive politics, culture, and memory. Made in North London from working Cypriot parts. 🔴⚪️ Newsletter: https://academicbubble.substack.com

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Dr Dion Georgiou 🇨🇾❤️🇬🇾 @drdiongeorgiou.bsky.social · 16d

I've written a new piece on Eddington and its blackly comical depiction of political ideology, polarisation, and violence in contemporary America. A few reflections on the film... 🧵

#filmsky #polisky #skystorians🗃️

Eddington

This portrayal of a small New Mexico town at the outset of the pandemic meditates on how individual self-interest, ambition, and resentments fuel political ideology, polarisation, and violence.

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Dr Dion Georgiou 🇨🇾❤️🇬🇾 @drdiongeorgiou.bsky.social · 13h

Zoology, theology…your discipline’s foundations took one hell of a beating.

Dr Dion Georgiou 🇨🇾❤️🇬🇾 @drdiongeorgiou.bsky.social · 13h

On the way home on the bus he asked me “Who is the strongest person in the world but not God and not the Gods in any other countries because I know there’s three of them: God, Jesus, and I can’t remember the other one.”

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Dr Dion Georgiou 🇨🇾❤️🇬🇾 @drdiongeorgiou.bsky.social · 13h

The kind of people who took claims of electoral irregularities in the 2019 Bolivian election seriously enough to equivocate about the runner-up launching a coup.

Dr Dion Georgiou 🇨🇾❤️🇬🇾 @drdiongeorgiou.bsky.social · 13h

We rightly criticise the credulity of some Western leftists for seeing everyone in the Americas who opposes US hegemony as a comrade, but there’s a similarly naive kind of liberal who is equally hostile to left and right populism alike and oblivious to legacies of colonialism and economic warfare.

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Matthew Kelly @matthewjkelly.bsky.social · 18h

A big, bold #envhist article on the seismic impacts of big infrastructure. You’ll
feel the earth move as you read.

Past and Present @pastpresentsoc.bsky.social · 2d

From the current issue: “Dams and the Deep Earth: The 1967 Koyna Earthquake and Human Agency in the Anthropocene”

by Elizabeth Chatterjee and Sachaet Pandey-Geeta Mantraraj (University of Chicago)

doi.org/10.1093/past...

Dams and the Deep Earth: The 1967 Koyna Earthquake and Human Agency in the Anthropocene*

Abstract. On 11 December 1967, a large earthquake devastated the village of Koynanagar in Maharashtra, western India. Many blamed the new Koyna hydroelectr

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Dr Dion Georgiou 🇨🇾❤️🇬🇾 @drdiongeorgiou.bsky.social · 14h

And just a correction to our earlier bulletin, it turns out that you do not in fact have to hand it to Presidente Pato de Milkshake

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Dr Dion Georgiou 🇨🇾❤️🇬🇾 @drdiongeorgiou.bsky.social · 14h

We regret to inform you once again that Latin American politics does not exist as a proxy for your own pet ideological projects and antagonisms.

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Dr Dion Georgiou 🇨🇾❤️🇬🇾 @drdiongeorgiou.bsky.social · 14h

Congrats, Charlie!

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Charlie Lynch @charlielynch.bsky.social · 15h

www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Between sickness and sin: models of male homosexuality in Northern Ireland c.1960-1990 | Irish Historical Studies | Cambridge Core

Between sickness and sin: models of male homosexuality in Northern Ireland c.1960-1990

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Charlie Lynch @charlielynch.bsky.social · Aug 20

A journal article about LGBTQ+ history in the North of Ireland, researched and written in Belfast, edited in Glasgow, and in the cafe on the Stena Irish Sea ferry, journal edited in Limerick, shortly to be published online worldwide.

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 1d

This is a person who is still taken seriously and published in left-wing spaces.

To be clear: No, most Israeli Jews are not descended from Polish Jews. And even for the minority who are, it would obviously not be safe for them all to go there now, given the Polish government.

Tweet from Axel Folio, PhD: "To Poland where they are from"

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Dr Dion Georgiou 🇨🇾❤️🇬🇾 @drdiongeorgiou.bsky.social · 15h

Every time I let him engage me in conversation, I can almost hear my brain cells bursting like popcorn in a microwave.

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Dr Dion Georgiou 🇨🇾❤️🇬🇾 @drdiongeorgiou.bsky.social · 15h

[Cat crosses our path]
5yo: But if you see a black cat, you have to be careful.
Me: Yeah.
5yo: Because it could be poisonous.
Me: Poisonous?
5yo: Yeah.
Me: Poisonous cats?
5yo: Well, some are.
Me: What, the black cats.
5yo: Yeah.

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Evan @evansmithhist.bsky.social · 1d

With the publication of our book 'In Solidarity, Under Suspicion: The British Far Left from 1956' next month, @manchesterup.bsky.social are offering a 30% discount using the discount code below!

manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526179593/

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Dr Dion Georgiou 🇨🇾❤️🇬🇾 @drdiongeorgiou.bsky.social · 1d

Two part-Guyanese players on the pitch now in Ruben Loftus-Cheek and Myles Lewis-Skelly for England; one part-Cypriot one for Wales in Lewis Koumas.

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Dr Dion Georgiou 🇨🇾❤️🇬🇾 @drdiongeorgiou.bsky.social · 1d

Glad to see her fictional criminal brother-in-law didn’t put her off.

Dr Dion Georgiou 🇨🇾❤️🇬🇾 @drdiongeorgiou.bsky.social · 1d

I always say the thing that really drives this home to me is that I have seen Linda Robson (of Birds of a Feather fame) twice in my life, some 25 years apart: once in a supermarket in Paphos, and once in a supermarket in Islington.

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Dr Dion Georgiou 🇨🇾❤️🇬🇾 @drdiongeorgiou.bsky.social · 1d

At least socially - they just weren’t moving in those circles, basically.

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Dr Dion Georgiou 🇨🇾❤️🇬🇾 @drdiongeorgiou.bsky.social · 1d

There were mountain villages just outside the city that were basically entirely inhabited by Brits and Russians. And mostly reliant on migrant labour from poorer countries (e.g. Philippines). Cypriots themselves, unless wealthier or who’d moved back from the UK almost entirely peripheral to this.

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Dr Dion Georgiou 🇨🇾❤️🇬🇾 @drdiongeorgiou.bsky.social · 1d

My experience of living in Paphos as a kid back in the 90s was that there were a class of Brit expats who were always exactly like this.

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Dr Dion Georgiou 🇨🇾❤️🇬🇾 @drdiongeorgiou.bsky.social · 1d

Everyone thought that lawyer unable to turn the cat filter off on his video during online legal proceedings was a whimsical distraction from the horrors of the pandemic, turns out it was actually a dystopian vision of our future judicial overlords.

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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 1d

My cat [6:20 AM]: meow meow meow

Translation: one wonders, one truly wonders how you feel you will fare under the inevitable future cat tribunals who will judge you harshly for going such a monstrously cruel length of time without feeding me. The mind reels at the torments they have in store, human

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Dr Dion Georgiou 🇨🇾❤️🇬🇾 @drdiongeorgiou.bsky.social · 1d

Marriage is between a man and his parent’s sibling’s daughter, Jo.

Dr Dion Georgiou 🇨🇾❤️🇬🇾 @drdiongeorgiou.bsky.social · 1d

Look if the kid says there won’t be a tornado I believe him.

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Sal 🇵🇸🇺🇦 @sal46.bsky.social · 1d

New indie band called ‘The 1974 Energy Crisis’ who specialise in barbed satire of British life and exclusively play children’s toy instruments. Debut single ‘Southwold Pier Suicide’ has received a rave review in The Quietus.

Dr Mark | 北马克 |🍉🇦🇺🇲🇾🇹🇭 @ajaanmark.bsky.social · 2d

Are they hoping to start a Young Tory cosplay trend on TikTok
www.thetimes.com/article/8c9a...

Meet the young Tories dreaming of a bright blue future

The Conservatives know they have a problem with Gen Z voters. At the party conference, The Times met a new breed of activists who are embracing the challenge

www.thetimes.com

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